Dallas Museum of Art's smARTphone Service Expanded
By STAN PARCHIN
February 18, 2010
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| Dallas Museum of Art (exterior). Photograph courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art. |
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) inaugurated its newly enhanced and expanded program of smARTphone tours on February 21, 2010. They now cover special exhibitions as well as more selections from the museum's permanent collections. Visitors can use their own Wi-Fi mobile devices or borrow an iPod Touch for free from the DMA's Visitor Services Desks for the application.
Bonnie Pitman, the Eugene McDermott Director of the museum, said, "The expansion of our smARTphone initiative supports the DMA’s educational mission and commitment to enhancing visitor engagement with our deep and diverse collections. The smARTphone tour allows us to open our archives, further enhancing the objects presented in our galleries through interactives and engaging new experiences.”
The Lens of Impressionism...
The traveling special exhibition The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 (February 21-May 29, 2010) explores later 19th-century French artists' responses to early photography within a single geographic location through 90 works, including 38 paintings, 40 photographs, drawings, prints, maps and ephemera. The show's smARTphone tour encourages visitors to find and experience Normandy using maps and period images on display. Its enhanced audiovisual features allow one to explore the artists' lives and careers through their portraits and biographical information.
The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection
At the DMA, the more than 1,400 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works that comprise the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection are installed in an exact recreation of Villa La Pausa, the couple's Mediterranean residence on the Riviera. The smARTphone tour brings to life famous guests at the house first owned by fashion maven Coco Chanel, among them Salvador Dalí and Winston Churchill. Its recorded narrative permits Wendy Reves to reminisce with the visitor about collecting art and her European vacations.
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